E20 - The Golden Raven

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[00:00] Nazukihiko
    The mother who abandoned her family?
[00:04] Yukiya
    I think Koume pieced it together.
[00:06] Yukiya
    But she didn't think I'd take
    her story seriously, so...
[00:10] Nazukihiko
    She went to settle things herself?
[00:13] Yukiya
    My humble apologies.
[00:17] Nazukihiko
    We must hurry...
[00:20] Nazukihiko
    to where Koume's gone.
SIGN    Shimobara, the North
[00:29] Hatsune
    What are you doing here?
[00:32] Koume
    Is that all you have to say to
    your daughter after all this time?
[00:40] Coworker
    You have a visitor, Hatsune?
[00:42] Hatsune
    Yes, one of my relatives.
[00:44] Hatsune
    We'd better step out for a bit.
     It seems urgent.
[00:47] Coworker
    Sure thing.
[00:59] Koume
    Well, I see you're living well.
[01:04] Koume
    Is that a man's kimono?
[01:06] Hatsune
    So what if it is?
[01:08] Koume
    I was just wondering if he knows
    you've been seeing your ex-husband.
[01:15] Koume
    Dad came here, didn't he?
[01:19] Hatsune
    Whatever do you mean?
[01:22] Koume
    Dad stopped at this inn before Sugou.
     He said he had a good customer here.
[01:28] Koume
    At the time, I never dreamed he meant you.
[01:34] Hatsune
    Pure coincidence. I haven't seen him.
[01:37] Koume
    What did you put him up to?
[01:39] Hatsune
    Nothing. I just told you.
[01:42] Koume
    I heard a woman with moles like yours
    sold Sagecap to a physician in Shimobara.
[01:49] Koume
    That made me a suspect.
[01:52] Koume
    I kept my mouth shut. For now.
[01:55] Koume
    You made that deal with
    the monkeys, didn't you?
[02:00] Koume
    You got rich off Sagecap but made Dad do all
    the work so you could keep your hands clean.
[02:06] Koume
    Then you cut him loose
    when he got inconvenient.
[02:10] Hatsune
    I don't know what you're talking about.
[02:13] Hatsune
    Could you leave already?
[02:18] Koume
    Don't worry. I won't go and turn you in.
[02:25] Koume
    I need to make my own way from now on.
[02:29] Koume
    Won't you give me a little
    something to get started...
[02:32] Koume
    Mom?
[02:39] Hatsune
    You really are my daughter.
[02:42] Hatsune
    Wait a moment.
[02:45] Koume
    Still, I'm impressed.
[02:48] Koume
    How'd you ever convince that coward to
    kidnap girls and feed them to the monkeys?
[02:55] Hatsune
    As if Jihei would've ever found the courage.
[03:01] Hatsune
    I just asked him to do a little job.
[03:04] Hatsune
    You know, "Won't you take
    some shady cargo to Sazaki for me?"
[03:08] Koume
    "Some shady cargo"?
[03:13] Koume
    You mean Dad didn't know about the monkeys?
[03:17] Hatsune
    You think he would've agreed if he had?
[03:20] Hatsune
    Sure enough, he came back
    from Sazaki as pale as a ghost.
[03:23] Hatsune
    "What did you make me do?" and
    "I'll never take a job like that again!" and so on.
[03:29] Hatsune
    But in the end, he agreed
    to go to Sugou, too.
[03:33] Koume
    Why? Didn't he say he was
    done with that stuff?
[03:36] Hatsune
    Well, you see, he sold Sagecap to an amateur
    and caught the Underground's attention.
[03:43] Hatsune
    If you'd stayed in the Center,
    you would've both been dead.
[03:47] Hatsune
    He decided to flee to the countryside and
     make it look like the monkeys had eaten you.
[03:52] Hatsune
    That's why he took the Sugou job.
[03:55] Koume
    Let me guess. You planned that part, too.
[03:58] Koume
    Dad could never handle Sagecap.
[04:02] Koume
    You knew that and set him up
    so he'd have no choice but to go to Sugou.
[04:06] Hatsune
    Me? Perish the thought.
[04:09] Koume
    And to top it off,
    you dumped all the blame on him.
[04:12] Koume
    You told him to write that
    he'd done it all on his own and—
[04:16] Hatsune
    Jihei wrote that confession for your sake.
[04:20] Koume
    What?
[04:21] Hatsune
    "Think of poor Koume with
    two murderers for parents," he said.
[04:25] Hatsune
    "Let me be the only villain."
[04:28] Hatsune
    That letter convinced
    the Underground to stop with him.
[04:32] Hatsune
    You were all Jihei thought
    about to the bitter end.
[04:40] Hatsune
    How's this? I think it suits you.
[04:44] Hatsune
    Oh, I know. My man will be home soon.
     Let's have a nice meal. All three of us.
[04:51] Hatsune
    You really do take after me.
    Like mother, like daughter.
[04:56] Koume
    Don't touch me!
[04:59] Hatsune
    Koume?
[05:01] Koume
    Dad's the only parent I have!
[05:03] Koume
    You...
[05:05] Koume
    You're not my mother! You can't be!
[05:18] Hatsune
    I can't believe you just waltzed in
    here alone. How stupid can you be?
[05:31] Hatsune
    I bet you thought no parent would
    ever kill her own child. How naive.
[05:37] Hatsune
    My father sold me when
    I was 13 to pay off his tab.
[05:43] Hatsune
    And not just once. Over and over.
[05:48] Hatsune
    One winter night,
    he got dead drunk outside.
[05:52] Hatsune
    It was supposed to snow the next day.
[05:54] Hatsune
    So I locked him out.
    He was ice cold by morning.
[06:04] Hatsune
    I was so happy when Jihei fell for me.
[06:07] Hatsune
    I thought I finally had a family.
    That Jihei would treasure me.
[06:14] Hatsune
    But then, you came along,
[06:16] Hatsune
    and I ended up alone again.
[06:20] Koume
    Murderer.
[06:22] Hatsune
    Yes, I'm a murderer.
[06:29] Hatsune
    How did I end up like this?
[06:32] Hatsune
    I only wanted to be happy.
[06:46] Yukiya
    Koume! Are you all right?
[06:52] Koume
    Yukiya?
[06:55] Nazukihiko
    I heard the gist of it from Yukiya.
[06:59] Nazukihiko
    You must have found it hard to bear alone.
[07:03] Yukiya
    I'm so very sorry.
    I said so many awful things to you.
[07:07] Koume
    I thought you'd come, Yukiya.
[07:10] Koume
    Because you suspected me.
[07:14] Koume
    When you told me you couldn't trust me,
[07:19] Koume
    I realized everyone who'd
    really believed in me was gone.
[07:28] Koume
    Dad...
[07:47] Nazukihiko
    Take your time.
[08:01] Hatsune
    Darling!
[08:03] Hatsune
    Save me!
[08:05] Hatsune's Man
    Hatsune.
[08:09] Nazukihiko
    Sagecap?
[08:26] Nazukihiko
    Go back inside!
[08:34] Koume
    Yukiya!
[08:36] Koume
    Help! Yukiya!
[08:41] Yukiya
    What does this remind me of?
[08:47] Nazukihiko
    Wait, Yukiya!
[08:52] Yukiya
    Your Highness!
[09:14] Yukiya
    Is he dead?
[09:15] Nazukihiko
    No.
[09:16] Nazukihiko
    We'll retreat for now.
[09:17] Nazukihiko
    Take Koume and—
[09:48] Yukiya
    Your Highness!
[09:54] Yukiya
    Your Highness!
[10:00] Yukiya
    Your Highness! Your Highness!
[10:03] Koume
    Yukiya!
[10:29] Yukiya
    Your Highness! Your Highness!
[10:31] Sumio
    Nazukihiko!
[10:32] Sumio
    Can you hear me?
    Hey, pull yourself together!
[10:34] Yukiya
    Your Highness!
[10:35] Sumio
    Say something, Nazukihiko!
[10:36] Yukiya
    Your Highness! Your Highness!
[10:37] Sumio
    Hey! Open your eyes! Come on!
SIGN    Northern House, Main House
[11:48] Sumio
    It was my fault. I'm so sorry.
[11:55] Yukiya
    Lady Hamayu.
[12:19] Hamayu
    Now you've been punished...
[12:22] Hamayu
    so don't get any crazy ideas.
[12:25] Hamayu
    That's an order.
[12:38] Hatsune
    It must have been three or four years ago.
[12:41] Hatsune
    The water dried up, starting at
    the foot of the central mountain.
[12:45] Hatsune
    Eventually, our well failed, too.
[12:49] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I smell something delicious
    on you. A young woman.
[12:53] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I want to eat her next.
[12:56] (Flashback) Hatsune's Man
    Out of the question.
[12:58] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    Why not? Is she your wife? Your daughter?
[13:02] (Flashback) Hatsune's Man
    I said no, and that's final!
[13:04] (Flashback) Hatsune
    Oh? And why not?
[13:07] (Flashback) Hatsune's Man
    H-Hatsune! I told you not to come here.
[13:12] (Flashback) Hatsune
    Say...
[13:13] (Flashback) Hatsune
    You say you want female flesh,
     but do you really care if it's mine?
[13:17] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    No, not really.
[13:20] (Flashback) Great Monkey
    I'll give you heaps more
    Sagecap in exchange.
[13:25] (Flashback) Hatsune
    Well? I'm sure we can work something out.
[13:38] Hatsune
    Surely you've heard enough?
[13:40] Hatsune
    Can you untie me now? These ropes hurt.
[13:44] Natsuka
    They cannot begin to compare...
[13:47] Natsuka
    to the pain your sacrifices inflicted
     on our poor fellow yatagarasu.
[13:52] Hatsune
    My "fellow yatagarasu"?
[13:55] Hatsune
    I don't recall any of you
    lifting a feather to help me,
[13:59] Hatsune
    but if we're "fellow yatagarasu,"
    would you mind letting me out of here?
[14:08] Natsuka
    How dare you...
[14:10] Hatsune
    No one came to my rescue.
[14:14] Hatsune
    Especially no blowhards who go on about
     "our poor fellow yatagarasu."
[14:21] Hatsune
    But the monkeys didn't lie,
     and they paid up.
[14:26] Hatsune
    They helped me to live in the lap of luxury.
[14:31] Hatsune
    I still feel gratitude to them.
[14:36] Hatsune
    Now, I suppose you're going to kill me.
[14:41] Hatsune
    Go ahead.
[14:43] Hatsune
    I forgive you.
[14:49] Official
    Take her away!
[14:52] Soldier
    On your feet!
[14:54] Hatsune
    This society isn't going to last
    much longer like this anyway.
[14:58] Soldier
    Move!
[15:09] Natsuka
    I do not understand.
[15:11] Natsuka
    I cannot make sense of that woman.
[15:14] Natsuka
    No. She is beyond pity.
[15:18] Natsuka
    I do not need to understand her.
[15:21] Rokon
    I bet her execution won't be pretty.
[15:29] Natsuka
    She brought it on herself.
[15:31] Rokon
    Yes, Lord Natsuka. You've got that right.
[15:34] Natsuka
    Then, wipe that smug look
    off your face this instant!
[15:50] Yukiya
    It's my fault His Highness was stabbed.
[15:53] Yukiya
    I assumed he could kill the big raven
    with one blow, like he killed that monkey.
[15:59] Hamayu
    No, it's not your fault.
[16:05] Hamayu
    What do you think makes a true kin'u?
[16:08] Yukiya
    Huh?
[16:11] Hamayu
    You see, Yukiya, Nazukihiko...
[16:14] Hamayu
    cannot kill yatagarasu.
[16:17] Yukiya
    What?
[16:18] Hamayu
    The Golden Raven regards
    all yatagarasu with love.
[16:23] Hamayu
    He could never kill one of us.
    Not even one that was trying to take his life.
[16:35] Hamayu
    That's just how kin'u are.
[16:39] Hamayu
    Some even say a true kin'u has no heart.
[16:43] Yukiya
    What do you mean?
[16:45] Hamayu
    "No emotion" might be nearer the mark.
[16:48] Hamayu
    In fact, Nazukihiko says so himself.
[16:50] Hamayu
    "I can't recall feeling joy,
    sorrow, or any other emotion."
[16:56] Hamayu
    "To a lord who would rule justly,
    personal feelings are nothing but a burden."
[17:04] Yukiya
    That does sound like him.
[17:07] Hamayu
    You've had an especially rough time of it.
[17:11] Hamayu
    But you know, I'm convinced Nazukihiko's
    lying about having no emotions.
[17:20] Hamayu
    It's just that in the face
    of his grand duty as kin'u,
[17:25] Hamayu
    his own feelings become
    as weak as wet paper.
[17:29] Hamayu
    They probably dissolve into nothing
    before he even notices them.
[17:41] Voice
    His Highness, the Prince, has awakened!
[17:56] Natsuka
    Thank goodness. Oh, thank goodness.
[17:59] Sumio
    Nazukihiko! Do you recognize me?
[18:04] Sumio
    Nazukihiko.
[18:12] Yukiya
    Oh, God...
[18:37] Yukiya
    How is Your Highness's wound?
[18:40] Nazukihiko
    It barely gives me pain now.
[18:42] Nazukihiko
    You look sickly yourself.
    Would you rather wait here?
[18:46] Yukiya
    You must be joking.
    What if something happened to you?
[18:53] Nazukihiko
    There.
[19:08] Yukiya
    Ghost-fire?
[19:13] Yukiya
    Why is there so much of it?
[19:14] Nazukihiko
    It seems the tears have widened
    while I was bedridden.
[19:33] Nazukihiko
    Ghost-fire is the light humans make.
[19:36] Yukiya
    Really?
[19:39] Nazukihiko
    Humans can't stand to leave
    any darkness unilluminated.
[19:47] Nazukihiko
    They move at a tremendous pace.
[19:49] Nazukihiko
    Their light is already
    closing in on our mountain.
[19:52] Nazukihiko
    No...
[19:55] Nazukihiko
    It has already engulfed and
    destroyed several outlying villages.
[20:00] Nazukihiko
    The monkeys will reemerge before long.
[20:05] Nazukihiko
    Yamauchi's waters will run dry.
    Its people's hearts will grow barren.
[20:11] Nazukihiko
    The tears will continue to spread
    until the humans eventually find us.
[20:16] Yukiya
    Will that be the end of Yamauchi?
    Will it all disappear?
[20:21] Nazukihiko
    Not even I know what form
     our ruin will take,
[20:25] Nazukihiko
    but I know it's coming.
[20:27] Yukiya
    How can you be so certain?
[20:30] Nazukihiko
    Because I was born.
[20:32] Nazukihiko
    A true kin'u is always born
    with the strength his times demand.
[20:39] Nazukihiko
    Healing in times of strife.
    Wisdom to survive in times of disaster.
[20:44] Nazukihiko
    And I have...
[20:47] Nazukihiko
    the power to halt Yamauchi's collapse.
[21:01] Yukiya
    What should I do?
[21:04] Nazukihiko
    Other than go home to Taruhi
    and protect your family?
[21:10] Yukiya
    Then, will you guard
    Yamauchi all on your own?
[21:14] Yukiya
    Stifling your feelings and mending tears
    with no one any the wiser?
[21:22] Nazukihiko
    I am the leader of all yatagarasu.
[21:25] Nazukihiko
    I would give all I have to save even one.
[21:29] Nazukihiko
    That is my joy.
[21:45] Nazukihiko
    We're leaving.
[21:47] Yukiya
    Your Highness.
[21:50] Yukiya
    Guarding you means guarding
    all of Yamauchi, my home included.
[22:00] Yukiya
    That means staying to support you
     is the best choice I can make.
[22:06] Nazukihiko
    Yukiya.
[22:08] Yukiya
    Our true kin'u can do his duty, but he's got
     no clue how to take care of himself.
[22:12] Yukiya
    I can't risk leaving him.
[22:19] Yukiya
    I humbly beseech Your Majesty, the Kin'u.
[22:22] Yukiya
    I, Yukiya of Taruhi, hereby pledge
    my loyalty to you for as long as I live,
[22:28] Yukiya
    till my body withers to nothing
    and the last flicker of my spirit fades.
[22:45] Nazukihiko
    You will be my right hand one day,
[22:49] Nazukihiko
    but I suspect you'll endure
    suffering and hardship because of it.
[22:55] Nazukihiko
    I may abandon you if I grow desperate,
[22:58] Nazukihiko
    and I may not always be the best of lords.
[23:02] Nazukihiko
    Will you still have me?
[23:05] Yukiya
    Please take me as your lowliest servant.
SIGN    Unbending Reed Monastery
[23:56] Student 1
    I hear we've got
    serious competition this year.
[23:58] Student 2
    Oh, you mean that big-shot noble's kid?
[24:01] Student 3
    I heard he was the Prince's aide.
[24:03] Student 4
    Is that the same guy who got
    a perfect score on the test?
[24:06] Ichiryu
    This is Unbending Reed Monastery,
[24:08] Ichiryu
    built to train Yamauchi Guardsmen
    to defend the kin'u, lowborn or not.
SIGN    Of Shimaki Village
     in the North
    Ichiryu
[24:12] Ichiryu
    Only strength matters here.
[24:14] Ichiryu
    Who cares if he's some noble's kid or aide?
[24:17] Ichiryu
    I'll beat him black and blue and
    into shape, or my name ain't Ichi—
[24:24] Ichiryu
    Y-Yukiya?
[24:26] Yukiya
    It's so nice to see you again, Ichiryu.
[24:28] Ichiryu
    What are you...
    You said you'd never come here!
[24:31] Yukiya
    Oh, well, I changed my mind.
[24:34] Yukiya
    Joining the Yamauchi Guard
    doesn't seem so bad after all.
[24:38] Yukiya
    I hope you won't be too hard on me.
SIGN    YATAGARASU:
    The Raven
    Does Not
    Choose
    Its Master
SIGN    Illustration: Natsuki